Coach Fellas : Heritage and Tourism in Ireland
Coach Fellas : Heritage and Tourism in Ireland
by Kelli Ann Costa
English | 2016 by Routledge | ISBN: 1598744070 | 256 Pages | PDF | 3.34 MB
by Kelli Ann Costa
English | 2016 by Routledge | ISBN: 1598744070 | 256 Pages | PDF | 3.34 MB
The Coach Fellas are known to almost all tourists who traverse the Irish countryside. Ostensibly bus drivers, they are also the tour guides who provide the crucial component in the branding of “people, place, and pace” upon which Irish heritage tourism depends. Kelli Costa’s ethnography of these highly trained and informed working class men highlights a previously ignored component of the tourism industry. She also demonstrates their importance in providing a visitor-specific vision of heritage that contrasts with the realities of contemporary economic development.
Kelli Ann Costa received her PhD in 1998 from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where she studied archaeology, heritage and tourism. She conducts accredited college tours of Ireland’s archaeological heritage sites, is busy with research, and lives in the Midlands surrounded by the people and places she loves.